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which_chickMore horse cloning news. I'm sure you all remember when I discussed this before (link here) but there are updates.
Pieraz-2 has knocked up some mare. Yep. They cloned him and bred him and the mare settled so now all we have to do is wait about ten months and we'll see how that works out. (Link here.) Pieraz was the first cloned horse that was cloned for reasons other than science (eg. "Hey, we can clone a horse!") research. Pieraz was cloned ON PURPOSE to be able to breed from the uncastrated Pieraz-2. He was a for-money clone.
Two cutting horse mares of considerable worth (Royal Blue Boon and Tap O Lena) have been cloned and the foals have hit the ground. They've done a show-jumping gelding (ET) and they've done ten-time world champion barrel horse Scamper. There are five Smart Little Lena (cutting horse) copies out there. The technology, while not exactly mature, is available and reasonably reliable and for $150K, anyone can have one.
How about them apples? (The reason they're doing horses instead of cows or pigs or whatever is that you don't EAT horses. People are all upset about cloned food, but apparently cloned riding animals are A-OK.) Also, note that none of these animals will be registerable in breed associations -- they are strictly for performance sports where the metric is how well the horse does the required activity. (Thoroughbreds have their own, special rules and have excluded clones since before clones were commercially available. They also exclude AI, In Vitro, and a bunch of other stuff.)
Pieraz-2 has knocked up some mare. Yep. They cloned him and bred him and the mare settled so now all we have to do is wait about ten months and we'll see how that works out. (Link here.) Pieraz was the first cloned horse that was cloned for reasons other than science (eg. "Hey, we can clone a horse!") research. Pieraz was cloned ON PURPOSE to be able to breed from the uncastrated Pieraz-2. He was a for-money clone.
Two cutting horse mares of considerable worth (Royal Blue Boon and Tap O Lena) have been cloned and the foals have hit the ground. They've done a show-jumping gelding (ET) and they've done ten-time world champion barrel horse Scamper. There are five Smart Little Lena (cutting horse) copies out there. The technology, while not exactly mature, is available and reasonably reliable and for $150K, anyone can have one.
How about them apples? (The reason they're doing horses instead of cows or pigs or whatever is that you don't EAT horses. People are all upset about cloned food, but apparently cloned riding animals are A-OK.) Also, note that none of these animals will be registerable in breed associations -- they are strictly for performance sports where the metric is how well the horse does the required activity. (Thoroughbreds have their own, special rules and have excluded clones since before clones were commercially available. They also exclude AI, In Vitro, and a bunch of other stuff.)
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Date: 2007-08-23 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-23 03:39 pm (UTC)But speaking of the cloning of performance animals, have you ween anyhing recently on the cloned mules? iirc, they managed to get two or three copies of a prominent racing mule. at least they can use the excuse that cloning would be the only way that animal would reproduce.
I see the news article mentions the mare's pregnancy is at twenty days. that is awfully early to claim success in producing a horse, as I'm sure you know.